Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-27

laid his pants back, let the window down
/ and skipped. MIR. and Mrs. Hardaway
| were sleeping in the same room. Neither
| woke, so the robbery was not discovered
until morning, when Mr.. Hardaway went
/ TO dress.
! At Atlanta Thursday the Piedmont Z
/ position Company asked for a charter.
4 The charter was drawn by Alderman
/ Charles Collier. and among the incOrpo.
rators are Rufus B. Bullock, William b.
/ Lowe, Henry w. Grady, NJ. c. Kiser and
many others. The object is to bold State
fairs. The capital stock is $25. 900, with
the privilege Of raising it to 500, 900 IRE
shares are $500 each. More than % per
cent. is to be called 10 the first year.
| Horse racing will be a feature of these
fairs. The Trowbridge Furniture Com.
pany also wants a charter. The capital
stock is 100000, with shares at 800 each.
| The object is the manufacture OF all kinds
of furniture.
At the beginning of the cold season the
city OF Macon purchased 80 cords Of
wood Tor distribution among the poor.
This was soon exhausted and 100 cords
more were purchased. This pile has
| dwindled down to a few sticks which are
reserved for urgent cases. The city
omclals have tried to put this wood in the
yards OF the really deserving. but the
| system allows many an opportunity to
impose upon the city. There is no doubt
that wood has been furnished people
who, if not able themselves, have near
relatives whose duty it is to supply
such necessities. The object of furnish
! ing of wood by the city is to furnish it
only 10 the real deserving and needy. II
this was done 100 cords would keep the
| really poor people warm all winter.
Hartwell sun: John s. Herndon is one
! OF our best farmers, and always pays
cash as he goes. Tuesday last from morn
ing until night he had twenty hands
shuckinR corn, and they didn't get
through. He SAID his cows needed the
shucks. Farming don't pay? 1T don't?
! Well, how did Jonn Herndon make his
! fortune? "Old b." says that many years
ago when John Herndon came 10 this
county young man, he stepped into his
store in his shirt sleeves, and his feet,
| which were torn by briars, We're wrap
| ped In rags. lie was a stranger, and
asked Old b. If he would let him have a
jug OF molasses on credit. Ignoring his
rag wrapped ieet, Old b. looRed into his
eyes and replied, "Ies, siri" The next
time John HerndOn stepped in the store
he was dressed In br0adclOth, on his way
to get married, and Old b. did not recog-
niZe him.
full-bloOded Indian. He lie member of
the Cherokee tribe, and was born on the
! Indian reservation in North Carolina.
His name is Jim You Sow, a rather sug-
gestiye appelatlve. He has all the char
acteristics of the red man. He talks but
little, has dark red complexion. promi-
nent cheek bones, and long. straight,
coarse, jet black hair. He Is at
present following the peaceful avo-
| n O f
county. AS is the case with most OF his
race, be has contempt for the negro. A
snort time ago negro man passed the
field where Jim You Sow was at work,
| and thinking he was a mulatto, hailed
him: -"HeiO, niggar-wu'k up darw
| The Indian brave was on the warpath in
moment, uttering blood. curdhng war
| whoops at every jump; and the way the
"brothef In black" made himself scarce
in the neighborhood OF $40! the poor In
| dian" was exceedingly diyerting to those
who witnessed the episode. He says he
used TO be an expert with the bow, but
has not feathered an arrow IN many years.
For several days a company OF gentle
men from the great lumber regions of
Michigan, composed OF w. A. Preston
and K. II. Kingsley, OF st. Joseph, Mich,
j. r. Crandall, OF Benton Earbor. Mich,
and others, have been prospecting about
IdlldpUUSd, anu On mOnudY CLOSED ITaue
with Col. A. j. McBride for 200 acres of
timbered lands adjacent to Tallapoosa
This will result in the establishment of
the most important business enterprise
undertaken in that town. These gentle.
men propose TO proceed at once with the
work of preparing the immense Quanti-
ties OF tim Der bought for the markets. They
! will put up mammoth saw mills, and ma.
chInery OF various kinds. Among other
things will be large factory for the
| manufacture OF SASH, doors, blinds, and
all kinds of house building material and
several different kinds of furniture. In
stead of shipping the lumber off green for
somebody else TO make money by work.
ing II up, it will be worked up before
shipment. Lumber will be kiln dried by
new and rapid processes, dressed and
matched all ready for gong at once into
buildings before leaving TallapOosa.
These gentlemen represent an immense
amount OF capital, and will doubtless put
on foot several other enterprises calcu-
lated to increase the Importance of that
place.